Gov. Chris Christie is anti-labor

Recently, the Republicans ran a television ad stating that Gov. Chris Christie is taking us in a new direction. They forgot to tell us it was the wrong direction.

He is anti-labor and is trying to take you back to the 1940s. In 1946, when I returned from World War II, I was 21 years old and had given three years of my life for the greatest country in the world. In 1947, when I went to work in construction for a steamfitter’s local, we were paid $11 a day. I worked with men who had no health insurance, no pension and no vacation. Some of these men worked 40 years and still had no money to retire. We did not receive vacation time in our local until 1961, and that was only after going on strike to get it. Is this the direction you want to go?